| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce - Railroad law - 1905 - 1170 pages
...Commission is general rate-making power and of a legislative character. Quotations on these points follow : It Is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...rates which shall be charged in the future — that is n legislative act. * * * It will be seen that in this case the Interstate Commerce Commission assumed... | |
| Harry Turner Newcomb - Interstate commerce - 1905 - 218 pages
...is general rate-making power and of a legislative character. Quotations on these points follow : " It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged and collected are reasonable — that is a judiccial act; but an entirely different thing to prescribe rates which shall be charged in the future... | |
| Walter Chadwick Noyes - Railroad - 1905 - 300 pages
...constitutionally be conferred upon it. Now repeating the language of the Supreme Court of the United States—"to inquire whether the rates which have been charged...collected are reasonable — that is a judicial act. . . . For more than a hundred years it has been the affirmative duty of the courts to execute and enforce... | |
| 1905 - 1344 pages
...duty to declare the act unconstitutional and nugatory. But, to quote again from Mr. Justice Brewer, " It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which have been charged and'collected are reasonable — that is a judicial act ; but an entirely different thing to prescribe... | |
| Harrison Standish Smalley - Railroads - 1906 - 184 pages
...this question is most clearly drawn in the Interstate Commerce Commission v. Cincinnati, etc. R. Co.: "It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act." 3T It is. then, beyond the scope of judicial authority to substitute valid rates for those which have... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Attorneys general's opinions - 1906 - 766 pages
...Commission v. Cincinnati, New Orleans and Teras Pacific Railway Company (supra), said, on page 499: "It is one thing to inquire whether the rates which...charged in the future — that is a legislative act." Again, on page 505: "The power to prescribe a tariff of rates for carriage by a common carrier is a... | |
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